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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






2. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






3. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






4. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






5. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






6. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






8. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






10. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






11. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






13. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






14. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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15. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






18. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






20. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






21. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






23. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






24. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






25. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






26. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






27. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






29. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






30. r-controlled syllable






31. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






32. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






33. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






34. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






35. Multisensory Structured Language






36. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






37. Whole body learning






38. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






39. Final stable syllable

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40. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






41. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






44. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






45. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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46. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






47. Multisensory Structured Language Education






48. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






50. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U







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